Romans 3:19 | Women's Rightly Divided Bible Study

Romans 3:19

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

This is such an important verse to understand. The law actually condemns everyone. All people, Jew and Gentile are guilty before God. The law was never given to us to try to keep in our own efforts, but was given to reveal our sin nature. When you are an unbeliever and you read the 10 commandments, you will (or should) realize that you have broken these commandments. But even before reading the 10 commandments you will have some understanding that you sometimes want to do certain good things, but that you fail to do them or you fail to do them consistently. This is our conscience and it also condemns us. There is the Mosaic law given to the Jews and the law of the conscience given to all people. Adam, Noah, Abraham, David and all saints from times past (and anyone saved in our current dispensation), recognized their sin nature and then trusted in God to save them. 

God wants all people to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. Every person has freewill choice to choose to believe the gospel or not to. This means also that God wants us to be fully righteous, so that we can spend eternity with him. This righteousness has to be imputed to us from the Lord himself, and that occurs from the very moment that we believe the gospel. 

People who preach that you must keep the law in order to be saved are trying to establish their own righteousness, which is what most of Israel tried to do. 

Romans 10:3 says,

3 For they [Israel] being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, [Trying to keep the law in the energy of their flesh instead of trusting in God to save them] have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. [Even today, the nation of Israel as a whole is blinded in part until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in which is after the rapture; individual Jews can be saved today by simply believing Christ's death, burial and resurrection as atonement for our sins].

We will learn more about that in Romans chapters 9-11, but it's important to understand that the law was given to show us all our sin nature. 

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